A woman faces a life sentence in prison if convicted of what authorities say is one of the most inhumane crimes they have ever seen.

Chante Mallard, 25, has been charged with murder after a homeless man died in her garage . . . with his body lodged in her car's windscreen.

SHE is accused of hitting the man with her car last October and driving home with his head in the broken windscreen.

THE man's body was later found dumped in a park. Authorities in Fort Worth, Texas, say Gregory Biggs, 37, would have lived if he had received medical attention. His legs were broken and he had cuts, but he had no internal injuries.

MALLARD ignored his cries for help as he bled to death over the next two days in her garage, police said. She was arrested following a tip-off.

STATE District Judge James Wilson raised Mallard's bail to £166,000 at a bail hearing on Friday after family and friends of the accused testified on her behalf.

THE judge ruled that Mallard stays under house arrest, wears an electronic monitor, continues counselling, avoids alcohol and is drug tested.